Quality of Life among Postmenopausal Egyptian Women: A Cross-Sectional Study

Objective: The study aims to assess the quality of life (QOL) among postmenopausal women in Beni-Suef, Upper Egypt.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 800 women in the menopausal period. The participants were attending four urban and four rural primary health care facilities in Beni-Suef governorate, Upper Egypt in the period between March and December, 2018. The assigned participants fulfilled the Menopause-Specific QOL questionnaire (MENQOL) for assessment of the psychosocial, vasomotor, physical and sexual domains of QOL in the postmenopausal women.

Results: The study revealed that only less than quarter of the participants (21.8%) had good psychological assessment, 15.5% had good physical assessment, 46.5% had good sexual assessment, 78.6% had good healthy food assessment and 89.1% had good lifestyle assessment.

Conclusions: Menopause could induce both physical and psychiatric problems among Egyptian women. Education, creating awareness and providing suitable intervention to improve their QOL are important which should be imparted to menopausal women at both individual and community level.

Keywords: Menopause; Quality of life; psychological; sexual.